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Now you've heard this story before, a dead relative showing up at the moment of death. Skeptics say this is just a hallucination caused by the brain shutting down. But that theory doesn't apply here because Jeff didn't see his wife floating in the room. The doctor did. In 1975, Raymond Moody published life after life. He coined the term near death experience. The book sold 13 million copies. Moody had interviewed more than 100 people who'd been clinically dead and came back. Their stories were almost identical. A tunnel, an overwhelming light, deceased relatives waiting for them. A sense of peace so deep it changed their lives. Skeptics had answers for all of it. Oxygen deprivation caused tunnel vision. And orphans flood the brain creating a sense of peace. The temporal lobe under stress creates visions of dead relatives. Per decades, those answers held. But over the next 30 years Moody kept hearing from a different kind of witness.

These weren't people who died and come back. These were people who'd been sitting at someone's bedside when the person passed and experienced the exact same thing. The tunnel, the light, the deceased relatives, and they were healthy and fully conscious. Moody called this an S-D-E. S-D-E. S-D-E shared death experience. The elements were consistent across hundreds of reports. Witnesses described a mist, something like golden gray smoke rising from the dying person's body. Researcher Peter Fenwick collected similar accounts from healthcare workers across the UK. They described it as smoke, a gray mist, or a very wispy white shape leaving the body, usually from the chest or through the head. Some saw the mist form into a transparent shape of the person. Others described music, not hospital sounds, something unearthly, beautiful and complex in ways they couldn't put into words. Oh my goodness! No, not like that. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry,

good, good, go ahead. So they heard music, and then there was the light. It was overwhelming and came from everywhere. A brilliance that witnesses said felt like love. The experience was described as more real than real, a phrase that kept showing up independently and report after report. Something else witnesses consistently described, the shape of the room changed, walls that no longer met at right angles, the space collapsed and expanded at the same time. One woman described it as witnessing an alternative geometry. A hospital room small rectangular and ordinary took on the shape of a funnel hundreds of feet long. Some bystanders got pulled into something even stranger. The dying person's life review, they saw memories that weren't theirs. Episodes from the dying person's past, playing out like a movie. Multiple witnesses in the same room later confirmed they saw the same scenes. A woman watched her husband's childhood unfold before her eyes. Memories she'd never heard before. Another family watched their dying father serving in a war

complete with faces and names of soldiers they'd never known. No skeptical model explains how healthy people access someone else's memories. Moody knew this sounded impossible. Then it happened to him. On May 9th, 1994, Moody's mother was dying of cancer. Six family members gathered around her bed. As they held hands, four of the six felt themselves lifting off the ground. The room morphed into an hourglass. Moody described a pole like a riptide, but upward, then the light changed. One of his sisters pointed and said, look, Dad's here. He's come back together. Their father had been dead for almost two years. All six had an experience that night. Moody described it in one of his books. The room changed shape. The light was soft, fuzzy, like looking at a pool at night, and then it hit all of us at the same time. The fabric of the universe had torn. And for just a moment, we felt the energy of that place called heaven.

After 50 years of research, Raymond Moody said it was shared death experiences. That finally convinced him the afterlife is real. Not the thousands of NDE's, the SDEs. The most convincing cases weren't the ones where the experience was shared by family, friends, and other people close to the dying. The most convincing cases where the experience is shared by complete strangers. You show when I talk about SDEs. This sounds like a retirement community in Florida. You stepped on my cliffhanger. I was trying to get a little clarity, look, I don't need any of that. I need you to stick to the script. Look at the proper, I know where we're ending it. So don't just jump in. Oh, I barely got any sleep last night. What? Why? I spent hours fighting with AI. All because I was trying to make a website. It started out okay, but then I got stuck just trying to change one button. Okay, okay, relax. Just try Wix Harmony. What's that? It's Wix's new website builder. Let's you switch back and forth between AI tools and hands-on

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above the knee. He spent six months in the hospital, 18 surgeries. Dr. Jeff Olson was working the ER the night Olson was airlifted in. He wasn't assigned to the case. A nurse named Rachel grabbed his arm and told him to come to the trauma room. She said Olson's wife was there. Olson knew what Rachel meant. They discovered something about each other months earlier. They both saw things they couldn't explain. Odriskel walked into the trauma bay. He looked at the gurney and saw a woman floating above Jeff Olson. She had curly blonde hair, flowing white clothes. She was almost transparent, but vibrant. More alive than anyone else in that room. She looked directly at me and smiled. Not a stranger smile. She looked at me like she'd known me forever. Rachel saw her too. She said the woman radiated peace. While his body was on that gurney, Olson's consciousness was somewhere else. He was floating above the accident scene

and what he later described as a bubble of light. His wife Tamara was floating next to him. She was calm. She was beautiful. She told him he couldn't stay. Olson didn't want to go back. His wife was dead. His son was dead. His body was broken. But Tamara insisted. He had to go back. Spencer needed him. Jeff Odriskel wrote the book, not yet, about his experience. Jeff Olson wrote his own book, Knowing. The two chefs became lifelong friends and told their story together at conferences for years. Even though shared death experiences as a new term, STDs have been happening for a long time. What? You said STDs. No, I said STEs. Now you didn't rewind the tape. I'm living in your head right free, you mean? Carl Scala was a German soldier in World War One. He was crouching a foxhole with his best friend when an artillery shell hit, trapped no everywhere. His friends slumped the Scala's arms dead. Then Scala felt his consciousness pull up and out of his body. He was floating above the battlefield

over the trenches. He saw the mud, the smoke, the bodies. His friend was floating next to him. They rose together toward a brilliant light. At some point Scala stopped. He didn't know why, but his friend continued and disappeared into the light. Scala woke up in the foxhole alive, holding the body of a man he just helped leave this world. There have been hundreds of cases of shared death experiences where people see an apparition. They hear music, they see light, they feel love. But you don't have to be in the same place as dying to have this experience. You can have a shared death experience with someone thousands of miles away.

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Then Peters' awareness dropped back into his body. Ron died minutes later. Peters didn't tell anybody about this experience. He didn't know if it was his imagination or if he was going crazy. Years later, he attended a lecture by Raymond Moody on shared death experiences. And for the first time, he heard someone describe exactly what he'd been through. It had a name. Other people had experienced it. He wasn't losing his mind. Peters founded the Shared Crossing Project in 2013 and started collecting cases. He now has more than 800. And here's what made the data genuinely strange. 64% of the STE's Peters collected were a remote. The person having the experience wasn't at the bedside. They weren't even in the same state. Annie Cap was sitting in her London office when she started choking. She couldn't breathe. For 25 minutes, she struggled for air with a growing sense of dread about her mother, Betty, who was in a hospital in Portland, Oregon. 5,000 miles away. She called the hospital. Betty died while Annie was on the phone. Annie had been sharing her mother's death

from across the Atlantic Ocean. Then there's Mark. He was on a plane when- Let me guess. He was on a Spirit Airlines flight and wished for death. No. He was flying across the United States when he felt a telepathic connection to his father dying in a Canadian hospital. He heard his father say he didn't know how to do this. Mark visualized walking up a staircase with his father toward a light. At the top, they were greeted by Mark's grandmother. His father hugged her, turned to Mark and told him he didn't know was this easy. Mark's phone rang minutes later. His brother told him their father had just passed away. But Mark already knew. One woman hadn't spoken to her ex-husband in over a decade. One day she suddenly felt his presence. She heard his voice in her mind. He thanked her for the years they'd shared. She texted her daughter right away. Her daughter said her father had just died. A bond she thought was broken reached across the years and the miles to say thank you and to say goodbye. Peters also collected cases involving children as young as 304. They had no cultural

framework for a shared death experience. But at the moment a grandparent or parent died, they described seeing a light mist come out of the body. Then the mist transformed into a figure. In some cases, the children accurately described dead relatives they'd never met. A four-year-old described her dead grandfather down to the scar on his left hand. She'd never met him. She'd never even seen a photo of him. Nurses, doctors, hospice workers, the people closest to death were seeing things they couldn't explain. And for decades, they kept it to themselves. They didn't realize that shared death experiences happened all the time.

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Leave me alone. I just want to go. Let me die in peace. Please. Just let me die. She snapped back to reality as she didn't tell anyone for years. Instead she spent the next five years conducting her own investigation. She published a findings in a book called The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences. This is more common than people think. In surveys of hospice workers, a high percentage report witnessing unexplained things at the moment of death. Lights, mist, presences, temperature changes. Most never say a word because they're worried about losing their job. Julie McFadden is a hospice nurse who's now an educator and advocate for end-of-life awareness. Her patient Randy was a younger man who pushed everyone away. McFadden's team helped him reconnect with distant relatives. He lived nine months longer than anyone expected. On the day Randy died, Julie stopped to see him one last time. He was unconscious. She silently walked her car and thought, goodbye, Randy. I hope you have a beautiful journey. Then suddenly she heard it. Oh my gosh, Julie. Wow. I wish you could see this.

And she could feel what Randy was feeling. If only I had known how good this was going to be, I wouldn't have been so afraid. It lasted about 30 seconds. Then her phone buzzed. Texts from the nurse, Randy just passed away. Julie kept it secret for years until she realized these events were more common than she thought. Even pets show deathbed behavior. Bruce Grayson documented dozens of cases of comatose dogs suddenly sitting up and wagging their tails, smiling at something unseen. A woman saw her dead cat sitting at the foot of her dying father's bed purring. The cat had been gone for three years. Oh, can we kill one of your cats to test this theory? Oh, you go before any of the cats. Peter's found that many S.D.E. experiencers waited decades to tell anyone 30 years, 40 years. They thought no one would believe them. Healthcare workers were the most silent of all. And none of this required religion. Peter's recorded cases of committed atheists who had S.D.E.s and were shaken. They weren't looking for a spiritual experience. They got one anyway. One culture figured this out a thousand

years ago. Tibetan Buddhists have a practice called Pala. This is where the living helped guide a dying person through the transition. They report the same things, the light, the tunnel, the people on the other side. One of the oldest spiritual traditions on earth built an entire practice around something Western science is only now starting to take seriously. And they're not the only ones. There are eighth century records of people witnessing a light while a monk passed away. Aboriginal Australians have traditions around communal dying. Community members gather and report shared spiritual experiences during death. This has been happening for as long as humans have been dying. We just stop talking about it. But these experiences still won't convince skeptics. They don't want ancient legends or anecdotes. They want hard science. So let's get in that. Hey there, it's Ryan Seacrest for Safeway. It's stock up savings time. Now through April 2nd, spring in for store-wide deals and earn four times of points. Look for in-store tags to earn

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Their grief didn't disappear, but it was put into context. The loss was real, but it was wrapped in something bigger. Their fear of death vanished. But S.D.Es didn't come out of nowhere. The broader science of consciousness of death had been building for years. In 2001, cardiologist Pim Van Lomel published a study in the Lancet. He spent 13 years studying near-death experiences across 10 hospitals, his team tracked 344 cardiac arrest survivors. Every one of them had been clinically dead, heart stopped, brain flatlined. 18% reported near-death experiences. They were detailed and vivid, in someone who is supposed to be dead. Van Lomel came to a conclusion. These experiences occurred during a period of clinical death. No heartbeat, no brain activity, no blood flow. The clarity of consciousness was inversely related to the loss of brain function. That is the opposite of everything neuroscience predicts. The less the brain was alive, the clearer the experience. That's the opposite of what

neuroscience says should happen. Anna Katarina Irmer proved this. She was a 26-year-old woman in a German institution for the severely mentally disabled. She'd ever spoke a single word in her entire life. In the half hour before her death, she spontaneously began singing. Multiple staff members witnessed this. Michael Naum and Bruce Grayson published the case study in 2014. A brain that never worked right suddenly worked perfectly fine at the moment of death. In 2023, two studies pushed the science even further. Sam Parnia's aware two study at NYU monitored 567 cardiac arrest patients across 25 hospitals with portable EEG machines during active CPR. Hemowarsian's team at the University of Michigan published in Pinas, monitoring brain activity when ventilators were removed from comatose patients. Both studies found organized brain activity where there should be none. Parnia found gamma waves associated with higher consciousness up to an hour after the heart stopped. So that means the incredible Hulk, the best avenger,

operates on a higher level. Bruce Banner was exposed to gamma radiation, not waves. Oh my sweet son of a human. Gamma radiation travels as an electromagnetic wave, so check and meet. I'm smarter than you. Actually, it's more of a wave particle duality. You see, in quantum mechanics. Just, just step. I'm sorry I even said anything. Borsan found surges of gamma oscillations in the 30 seconds to two minutes after ventilator removal. Specifically, in the temporal parieto-accipital junction. Try saying that twice. The brain region associated with consciousness dreaming and out-of-body experiences. These weren't random spikes. The brain was producing organized thought patterns while it was supposed to be dead. And then there was the cross-cultural evidence. In the 1970s, researchers Carlos Osis and Erlander Halton conducted the biggest deathbed study anyone had ever done, surveying tens of thousands of cases across the United States and India. 50% of dying patients experienced deathbed visions. The visions were consistent across

both cultures, despite completely different religious expectations. Hindu patients didn't always see Hindu days. Christian patients didn't always see Jesus. The structure of the experience, the light, the beings, the overwhelming peace, that was the same regardless of what the person believed. If these experiences were just cultural expectation, the content would vary, but it didn't. We disagree on just about everything. Politics, religion, what's worth dying for. But when someone we love is dying, we all go quiet and we all feel the same thing. And maybe that's the point. Death isn't meant to separate us. It's the one thing we all share, and it's the one thing that brings us all together. Hey there, it's Ryan Seacrest for Safeway. It's stock up savings time. Now, through April 2nd, spring in for store-wide deals and earn four times of points. Look for in-store tags to earn on eligible items from hunts, nerds, Pillsbury, Lowries, Breyer's Quaker and Culture Pop. Then clip the offer in the app for automatic event-long

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situations can unconsciously mirror each other's experiences. There's nothing more stressful than sitting next to someone as they die. Emotions are so overwhelming that the brain tries to make sense of something that can't be explained, something it doesn't want to deal with. Memory Reconstruction is an even stronger argument. Every time you remember something, your brain edits the memory. Under extreme emotional stress, those edits get more dramatic. SDE Experiencers may be unconsciously reshaping their memories to match patterns they learned about later. Confirmation bias is another problem. If you're sitting at a deathbed hoping for a sign, your brain might create one. Physicist Sean Carroll argues that life after death is incompatible with everything we know about modern physics. We're made of atoms, so when we die, it's like a candle being blown out. There's no way for consciousness to survive because there's nothing for it to survive it. It seems to me you live like a candle in a wind. Know my atoms to cling to what a brain said in. That was pretty good. Yeah, I just missed Norma Jean. The real

country conspiracies her death. Hashtag chap it did it. Skeptical investigator Joe Nichol says SDE's are psychological coping mechanisms. When people remember the moment of loss, they introduce false memories to make it more bearable. A 2024 study in neuroscience of consciousness found strong overlap between near death experiences and psychedelic experiences. The closest match was ketamine, then DMT. The human brain naturally produces DMT. Some researchers think the dying brain may release its own DMT. Now these are reasonable arguments. And for bedside STEs involving a single witness, they might be enough. But these explanations don't cover remote STEs. Any cat didn't know her mother was dying when she started choking. Mark didn't know his father was dying until he felt it. 64% of Peter's cases were remote. No shared grief, no shared room. The skeptical arguments don't explain multiple witness cases where people in the same room saw the same things. They don't explain children.

A four year old hasn't been culturally primed about near death experiences. When a child describes a dead relative they've never seen, down to physical details, expectation buys isn't enough. Then there's the cross-cultural consistency. If STEs were purely psychological, they'd vary across religions. But Hindu and Christian patients describe the same experience the same way. Italian, Mexican, Brazilian and Taiwanese cultures are very different. But again, the reports are almost identical. Phanlamol, Peters, Parnia, Borgian, their studies are all peer-reviewed. They have data. But data doesn't mean proof. We still don't know the mechanism. We don't know how a healthy brain could share the experience of a dying one. We don't know why some people have STEs and others don't. We can't predict them, induce them, or measure them in real time. What we know is this. Thousands of people, nurses and doctors, friends and strangers, adults and children, atheists and people of faith. All reported experiences during someone else's death that changed them permanently.

Most became convinced of an afterlife. Their grief didn't disappear, but it transformed, and they no longer feared death. So maybe STEs are an elegant defense mechanism built into all of us. Our brains create a shared hallucination so powerful that it rewires grief into peace. Or maybe when someone dies, something actually happens. Something real. Something the person next to them, or 5,000 miles away, can feel. We can't prove the afterlife exists, but thousands of people have touched it. And every one of them came back changed. The evidence points to something more, a connection between the living and the dying, across rooms and across oceans. A four-year-old sees her grandfather's scar. A doctor in Utah sees a dead woman he's never met. A son in London feels his mother dying in Portland. Death may be neurological shutdown, or it may be a spiritual transition, or maybe it's something we haven't imagined yet. Whatever it is, it's not something we go through alone. Thousands of cases tell us that. The most isolated death, the most private moment

of dying, somehow become shared. The body dies, but the connection continues. When it's time to go, someone's already there, waiting to walk us home. Thank you so much for hanging out today. My name is AJ. That's Uncle Fish. Yeah, if you need me, I'll be sitting next to the humans bed, waiting to see if anything interesting happens, besides. That was creepy. And this has been The Wifiels. You had fun or learned something, and you're not too depressed. Do us a favor and like, subscribe, comment, share. That stuff really helps us out. I'd like most topics we'll cover here on the channel. Today's was recommended by you. So if this is a story you'd like to see, or learn more about, go to thewifiels.com slash tips. Remember, the Wifiels is also a podcast. Twice a week, I post deep dives into the stories we cover on the channel. I also post episodes that wouldn't be allowed on the video platforms. And the podcast is called, wait for it, the Wifiels, Operation Podcast, and it's available everywhere. And if you're listening on an audio platform, do us a favor and click the follow and like and leave good review. That really helps.

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And the fish are Thursday nights with day two. And when I'm happy, I'll do the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So the world falls on your feet all through the light. The mouth man's side and van, the solar storm still come. To Agatha, the secret city underground. Mysterious number stations, planets are phoned to. Rocks are stocking, and what the dark watchers found. In a simulation, don't you worry though. The black night satellite is told me so.

I can't believe I'm cancer with the fishy. And the fish are Thursday nights with day two. And when I'm happy, I'll do the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So the world falls on your feet all through the light. And the fish are Thursday nights with day two. And when I'm happy, I'll do the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So the world falls on your feet all through the light. Good enough to dance, good enough to dance. Time to dance, go, because she is a camel.

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